"Last year, it
was the Gnostic nonsense of the 'Da Vinci Code.'... This year it's a
variation on the 'Da Vinci' theme. We are not only being told that there
was a Mrs. Jesus (aka Mary Magdalene). We are also informed that her
tomb and that of Jesus have been found in Jerusalem; that DNA testing
has proved that they are not related and so must have been married (how
exactly does it prove that?)... In a surreal moment on 'Larry King Live'
earlier this week, the film's producer, James Cameron, told us with
a straight face that we should all be thankful that we now have tangible
evidence that Jesus existed. Actually, no serious historian of biblical
antiquity has ever doubted that there was a historical Jesus."[1]
Wall Street Journal

"Professor Amos
Kloner, the Jerusalem District archeologist who officially oversaw the
work at the tomb... dismissed the claims. 'It makes a great story for
a TV film.... But it's impossible.... There is no likelihood that Jesus
and his relatives had a family tomb.... They were a Galilee family with
no ties in Jerusalem.'"[3]

Is this science?
Or part of an intensifying battle against unchanging truths -- a despicable
mockery of the God of the Bible and the significance of His death, burial
and resurrection?

It doesn't take
much discernment to see through the hollow "theories" used to validate
these "scientific" fabrications. But in today's atmosphere of politically
correct "open-mindedness," there is little resistance to riveting misinformation!
And those who are driven by manipulative marketing are likely to buy
the tempting illusions about God as well.

The producer (James
Cameron) and director (Simcha Jacobovici) of Discovery Channel's "Jesus
Tomb" documentary featured fake evidence, false conclusions and a phony
tomb -- one that's more accessible and "convincing" than the original.

"Jacobovici shows
pictures taken by a camera that was sent down a pipe into the tomb.
The majority of the viewers won't understand that this is not the same
cave," said Professor Kloner, who supervised the original work in 1980.
"Much of the movie was filmed on sets recreated from the drawings and
photographs taken from those [false] works.... The documentary was made
according to the 'imagination of people.'... I don't accept the claim
that this tomb was the burial place for the family of Jesus."[4]

The two filmmakers
may have been motivated primarily by fame and fortune. But the change
agents that supported them have more revolutionary missions. So, before
we rebut the Discovery Channel's absurd suggestions, let's remember
that the vast majority of today's media masters have joined the crusade
for global transformation. They share a stake in the destruction of
Christianity -- the main obstacle to the UN vision of social
solidarity and spiritual
synthesis.

Since Biblical
certainties
stand as a barricade against crowd thinking and dialectical delusions,
what could better serve the globalist purpose than undermining the heart
of the Christian gospel: the purity, death, burial and resurrection
of Jesus? The timing of this travesty is no accident. This new "revelation"
-- riding in the wake of The
Secret -- surfaced just in time to corrupt
the celebration of Christ's resurrection in the minds of people around
the world.

It all makes sense
when we remember that Discovery Channel is part of the global media
conglomerate, Discovery Communications. The last few years, its senior
vice president for Public Policy & Communications has been Donald A.
Baer, an influential member of the Council
on Foreign Relations and a "former Assistant to President Clinton
for Strategic Planning and Communications."[5]
[See CFR:
Task Force Members]

Strategic communication
-- whether outright propaganda or "convenient" facts -- is vital to
the CFR's
plan for a New
World Order.[6]
As Aldous Huxley warned in "Brave New World Revisited" (his 1958 update
on Brave New
World), the emphasis on psycho-social manipulation was set in place
long ago.

"There are two
kinds of propaganda--rational propaganda in favor of action that is
consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those who make it...
and non-rational propaganda that is... dictated by, and appeals to,
passion....

"Propaganda in
favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals
to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available
evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action
dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false,
garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids logical argument and seeks
to influence its victims by the mere repetition of catchwords, by
the furious denunciation of ... scape­goats, and by cunningly associating
the lowest passions with the highest ideals....

"The power to
respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately,
does the tendency to respond to unreason and falsehood -- particularly
in those cases where the falsehood evokes some enjoyable emotion....

"Mass
communication, in a word, is neither good nor bad; it is simply a force
and, like any other force, it can be used either well or ill.... In
the totalitarian East there is political censorship, and the media of
mass communication are controlled by the State. In the democratic West
there is economic censorship and the media of mass communication are
controlled by members of the Power
Elite...."[6]

No small part of
that "Power Elite," Discovery
Communications wields its mind-changing influence through its vast
network of global operations which include Discovery Channel, Animal
Planet, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids, Discovery Times Channel,
TLC, Travel Channel, The Science Channel, Military Channel, Discovery
Home Channel, Discovery en Español and dozens more. Do you wonder what
kinds of facts and worldviews this massive media system promotes? Or
what it censors?

Let's turn to its
page on "The
Lost Tomb of Jesus." Here we are told that "hundreds of tombs and
thousands of ossuaries (limestone bone boxes) have been discovered in
the Jerusalem area.... One of these tombs was found to contain ten ossuaries.
Six of the ossuaries in this tomb have inscriptions on them. As it turns
out, every inscription in this particular tomb relates to the Gospels."[7]

Not true! Steve
Caruso, a professional translator at Aramaic
Designs, has been studying the Aramaic language for nearly a decade.
Decoding the imprecise script and scratches is neither easy nor conclusive:

"Out of all of
the inscriptions, the one attributed to Jesus is the most difficult
to make out, and as a result the most difficult to interpret.... I honestly
could see how Bar or 'son (of)' was implied.... With Yeshua or 'Jesus,'
however, I had a great amount of difficulty...."[8]

"It is not scholarly
and not scientific," said Professor Kloner, the original research manager.
Dismissing Discovery Channel's claims altogether, he notes "that the
documentary spends about 10 minutes talking about 'the missing ossuary,'
suggesting it could be the same ossuary that turned up several years
ago in the hands of an antique dealer.... Experts later discredited
the ossuary (which bore the inscription 'James, son of Joseph, brother
of Jesus') as a forgery and fraud."[4]

Not true! "I've
known about these ossuaries for many years and so have many other archaeologists,"
says "the dean of biblical archaeology," retired Professor William
Dever. "None of us thought it was much of a story because these
are rather common Jewish names from that period," he explained. "It's
a publicity stunt, and it will make these guys very rich, and it will
upset millions of innocent people because they don't know enough to
separate fact from fiction."[9]

Others agree. "Leading
archaeologists in Israel and the United States are denouncing the purported
discovery of the tomb of Jesus as a publicity stunt," writes Alan Cooperman
in his article, "Jesus
tomb claim denounced." He continues:

"Scorn
for the Discovery Channel's claim to have found the burial place of
Jesus, Mary Magdalene and — most explosively — their possible son came
not just from Christian scholars but also from Jewish and secular experts
who said their judgments were unaffected by any desire to uphold Christian
orthodoxy."[9]

"This whole case
is flawed from beginning to end," said Jodi Magness, an archaeologist
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "By going directly
to the media, she said, the filmmakers 'have set it up as if it's a
legitimate academic debate, when the vast majority of scholars who specialize
in archaeology of this period have flatly rejected this.'"[9]

"THE FILM ALSO DOCUMENTS DNA EXTRACTION FROM HUMAN RESIDUE FOUND IN
TWO OF THE OSSUARIES AND REVEALS EVIDENCE THAT THROWS LIGHT ON JESUS'
RELATIONSHIP WITH MARY MAGDALENE."[7]

Not true! This
absurd claim hides the fact that no one checked or recorded the DNA
of Jesus 2000 years ago! DNA testing for identity -- even in the most
prestigious laboratory -- means nothing if there's no original sample
to compare it with. Matching the DNA of individuals or unknown family
members may sound "scholarly" or "scientific," but it proves nothing
about our Lord!

Not only does Discovery
Channel market its blasphemous message under the prestigious banner
of "science," it also invokes the occult mysteries behind Gnosticism.
The following statement by Director Simcha Jacobovici (posted
on Discovery's website) shows how important those long-hidden heresies
were to the filmmakers.

"The key moment
in the investigation was the identification of the second Mary," he
says. And in our "Post
DaVinci Code" era, everyone knows Mary Magdalene." Then he shares
an old secret:

"...her
real name is Mariamne, which is the Greek version of Mary Magdalene.
I found out that Scholars don't argue about that, because of the Gnostic
gospels, because of the Acts of Phillip, several ancient texts that
have recently been discovered.... And guess what, that's what it says
on the ossuary.... So at that moment the light bulb went on."[10]

Was Gnosticism
the key that unlocked the tomb's mysteries? According to this documentary,
those occult legends tell us that Mariamne and her son moved to France
(which didn't become a nation until centuries later). Discovery Channel's
myth brings her back to Jerusalem before her death. Otherwise, how could
her bones be added to the tomb?

The dramatization
of Mary, Jesus, and the fake tomb makes it all the more believable.
And to a world seeking spiritual thrills, this Gnostic version of "history"
may seem too real to resist.

CONCLUSION

Today's assaults
on Christianity are well timed and increasingly blatant. But they shouldn't
surprise us. Blinded by the world's never-ending stream of entertaining
distractions, the masses have little time for the truth, facts and logic
that would enable them to resist deception.

That fact hasn't
escaped our global leaders, including the mainstream media within the
Council on Foreign relations. The mood of the nations has been surveyed,
assessed and manipulated for decades awaiting that "opportune" time
[Luke
4:13] for speeding the transformation. What the International Congress
on Mental Health concluded in its 1948 report has now become reality:

"Change
will be strongly resisted unless an attitude of acceptance has first
been engendered."[11]

Today, more than
half a century later, that general "attitude of acceptance" has been
established! Nations around the world are fast conforming to the pattern
set by UN
founders in the 1940s. And the global networks of "mental
health" and pluralistic partners are working to prevent any uncompromising
Truths or moral guidelines that would hinder "positive"
or "collective
thinking" around the world.

We don't know the
nature of the next assaults on God and His people, but we know the God
who reigns in the midst of them. Are you ready to stand firm in Him
when they come?

Subscribe to the NewsWithViews Daily News Alerts!

Enter Your E-Mail Address:

"...though
we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling
down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God...." 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Berit
Kjos is a widely respected researcher, writer and conference speaker.
A frequent guest on national radio and television programs, Kjos has been
interviewed on Point of View (Marlin Maddoux), The 700 Club, Bible Answer
Man, Beverly LaHaye Live, Crosstalk and Family Radio Network. She has
also been a guest on "Talk Back Live" (CNN) and other secular
radio and TV networks. Her last two books are A Twist of Faith and
Brave New Schools.Kjos
Ministries Web Site: http://www.crossroad.to/index.html

It
doesn't take much discernment to see through the hollow "theories" used
to validate these "scientific" fabrications. But in today's atmosphere
of politically correct "open-mindedness," there is little resistance to
riveting misinformation!